Palmdale, Pennsylvania

{{short description|Unincorporated community in Pennsylvania, US}}

{{Use mdy dates|date=January 2025}}

{{Infobox settlement

|name = Palmdale, Pennsylvania

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|settlement_type = Census-designated place

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|image_map = Dauphin County Pennsylvania incorporated and unincorporated areas Palmdale highlighted.svg

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|map_caption = Location in Dauphin County and state of Pennsylvania

|subdivision_type = Country

|subdivision_name = United States

|subdivision_type1 = State

|subdivision_name1 = Pennsylvania

|subdivision_type2 = County

|subdivision_name2 = Dauphin

|subdivision_type3 = Township

|subdivision_name3 = Derry

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|area_footnotes = {{cite web|title=ArcGIS REST Services Directory|url=https://tigerweb.geo.census.gov/arcgis/rest/services/TIGERweb/Places_CouSub_ConCity_SubMCD/MapServer/5/query?where=STATE='42'&outFields=NAME,STATE,PLACE,AREALAND,AREAWATER,LSADC,CENTLAT,CENTLON&orderByFields=PLACE&returnGeometry=false&returnTrueCurves=false&f=json|publisher=United States Census Bureau|accessdate=October 12, 2022}}

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|area_total_km2 = 3.85

|area_land_km2 = 3.84

|area_water_km2 = 0.00

|population_as_of = 2020

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|population_total = 1308

|population_density_km2 = 340.19

|timezone = Eastern (EST)

|utc_offset = -5

|timezone_DST = EDT

|utc_offset_DST = -4

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|elevation_ft = 433

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|postal_code = 17033

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|blank_info = 42-57648

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|blank1_info = 1193079

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|area_total_sq_mi = 1.49

|area_land_sq_mi = 1.49

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|population_density_sq_mi = 880.81

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Palmdale is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in Derry Township, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, United States. As of the 2010 census the population was 1,308.{{cite web| url=http://factfinder.census.gov/bkmk/table/1.0/en/DEC/10_SF1/G001/1600000US4257648| title=Geographic Identifiers: 2010 Demographic Profile Data (G001): Palmdale CDP, Pennsylvania| publisher=U.S. Census Bureau, American Factfinder| access-date=December 22, 2015| archive-url=https://archive.today/20200213061658/http://factfinder.census.gov/bkmk/table/1.0/en/DEC/10_SF1/G001/1600000US4257648| archive-date=February 13, 2020| url-status=dead}} Palmdale is in the Harrisburg–Carlisle metropolitan statistical area.

Palmdale is in eastern Derry Township and is bordered to the north, west, and south by the community of Hershey. The eastern border of Palmdale is with the borough of Palmyra in Lebanon County.

U.S. Route 422 (E. Chocolate Avenue) is the main road through Palmdale. To the east it leads {{convert|12|mi}} to Lebanon and {{convert|40|mi}} to Reading, while to the west it leads via US 322 {{convert|17|mi}} to Harrisburg.

{{Coord|40.298|N|76.619|W|display=title}}

{{US Census population

|2020= 1308

|footnote=U.S. Decennial Census{{cite web|url=http://www.census.gov/prod/www/decennial.html|title=Census of Population and Housing|publisher=Census.gov|accessdate=June 4, 2016}}

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